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Hittite Legend of the War with the Great Serpent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

A. H. Sayce
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Among the Boghaz Keui tablets is one which, though terribly mutilated, is of considerable interest. It is the story of the war between the gods and the Serpent of Evil told from the Hittite point of view and connected with the institution of the festival of Purulliyas. The original text has been published in the Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazkoi, iii, No. 7.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , April 1922 , pp. 177 - 190
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1922

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References

1 Dr. Scheil has shown that assirgallum denotes “alabaster” (Revue d'Assyriologie, xiv, p. 90).Google Scholar The Hittite text informs us that thereading is assirgallum and not gissirgallum. Scheil suggests that the dusu-stone was chalcedony.